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Coyote Creek Park '• Property of: Department of Public Works Park & Community Facilities Development Office , ' Coyote Creek Park City of San Jose •. County of Santa Clara --, Ribera & Sue Landscape Architects Masterplan Coyote Creek Park City of San Jose County of Santa Clara r ...... Ribera & Sue Landscape Architects July 1972 City and County Recreation Commissions City of San Jose and Santa Clara County - San Jose, California Gentlemen: The accompanying report and plans ummarize Phase Two research, site analysis and preliminary master­ plan for the Coyote Creek Park Our appreciation must be expressed for the enthusiastic encouragement and cooperation received from the staff and resource personnel of both the City and County. This has been an interesting, productive and gratifying phase of the project in which the basic data and con­ cepts evolved have been explored and refined. We look forward to working with you in subsequent phases of planning for the Coyote Creek Park. Sincerely, ,.... ~-~~ rJl!c~&-- RIBERA & SUE, LANDSCAPE ARCIDTECTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE REGIONAL CONTEXT 2 SITE CHARACTERISTICS 4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 5 RECREATION DEMAND 8 MASTERPLAN OBJECTIVES 8 CIRCULATION SYSTEMS 9 SCENIC HIGHWAY 10 COYOTE CREEK 12 MASTERPLAN AREA STUDIES 18 Kelley Park 19 Capitol Expressway 21 Hellyer County Park 23 Blossom Hill Road 23 Tennant Road 25 Metcalf Road 25 P.C.A. Entry Road 26 Bailey Avenue 27 Live Oak Road 29 Burnett-Cochran Road 30 CONTROL OF ADJACENT DEVELOPMENT 32 IMPLEMENTATION 33 ACTION SUMMARY 34 TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT WATER RESOURCES 37 FIRE CONTROL 41 FORESTATION 41 COST PROJECTIONS 43 OVERALL DEVELOPMENT COSTS 43 SUMMARY COST ESTIMATE 44 DEVELOPMENT COST ESTIMATES 45 COYOTE CREEK PARK MAINTENANCE 56 - MAINTENANCE COST ESTIMATES 57 BIBLIOGRAPHY 63 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 65 - ~;::::__,~~..-+n-~: ~~~ .l.O.l;,,;,J"li~b..I~ ·' ·. ._ __ .. , - . --.:- REGIONAL CONTEXT The Coyote Creek area, once the tribal habitat of native Recreational and open space demands will increase Califomias and later the boundary for Spanish land grants significantly from population growth and a general in­ in the South Valley areas, has always been recognized crease in time for individual leisure activity. There as an important living space for man. Urban pressures will be severe demands upon the park to accommodate and expansion demands in the Santa Clara Valley have the recreational needs of the San Jose and Valley area alerted public support for the preservation of this impor­ residents. tant open space corridor -- the Coyote Creek Park. Within its regional context the Coyote Creek Park must Around 1776, Spanish explorers of Anza's party named provide the growing number of San Jose residents with the creek Arroyo del Coyote. Since the early Spanish unique recreational opportunities for enriched urban settlement at San Jose and later Rancho Grants in the living. In less than 35 years, the population is ex­ Valley area, the name has appeared on local historical pected to reach 1. 0 to 1. 5 million. Severe pressure documents and maps. on the park areas to accommodate these expanded and intensified community recreational and open space ~ yote Creek is the largest natural surface drainage demands will introduce the park to a role within the system in Northern Santa Clara County) The watershed San Jose community as vital as that of the Golden Gate drains about 420 square miles, approximately half of Park in San Francisco. At the same time Coyote's size which is tributary to the water supply reservoirs, (2, 400 acres), more than twice that of San Francisco - Coyote and Anderson. From the base of Anderson Reser­ Golden Gate Park, will expose it to a significant re­ voir to San Francisco Bay, \!_he 42 miles of Coyote Creek gional population. channel flows north through valley V agricultural and quarry areas adjacent to the western slopes of the Diablo The Park design should serve as a housing and com­ - foothills, with the residential and ind us trial areas of mercial development control element, C responding to metropolitan San Jose bounding the creek on the north, population pressures, while attempting to maintain a west ahd eastern banks. conscientious yet responsive, relationship between recreational facilities development and open space Together with Stevens Creek and Guadalupe Creek, the preservation. Interpreting its role as a positive urban Coyote Park provides an opportunity for developing a shaper, the Park should reinforce existing open space major park and greenbelt system serving the leisure land by utilizing legislation to develop greenbelt cul - needs and preserving these important open space corri­ de-sacs along its length. Developers in the urbanized dors for the enjoyment of future generations. corridor should be strongly urged and required to pro­ vide community park lands and connecting greenbelt The General Plan of the City of San Jose presently re­ loops to the Park. cognizes the lower Santa Clara Valley as an area of secondary urban growth. However, population and development are expected to transform it into a compact urbanizeci corridor. Valley open space suitable for recreation will consequently be lost. - 2 Today, innovative planning, design and acquisition policies together with the rapid urban growth patterns, traffic corridors, and development pressures have played a decisive role in the recent definition of the Park. With the Coyote, extensive open space and park lands are utilized as the major spine of the Park, with roads, automobiles and urban noise buffered at the edges and crossings. A major design concept involves replace­ ment of park roads for pleasure driving with a compre­ hensive equestrian, bicycle and walking trails system. Supplementing these trails will be motorized tram cir- - cuits, carriage rides and other systems as needed to move families and groups of visitors to recreation areas throughout the park without the accompanying noise or congestion of the family automobile. These varied inter-park systems, with future connection to public rapid transit, will provide an economical mode of per­ sonal transportation throughout the park. The design of scenic streets, serving adjacent resi­ dential and urban developments at the Park's perimeter, provide excellent opportunities for continuous viewing and driving along the park. Access roads to the major recreation area within the Park are also served by roads and expressways crossing the site. Along the Diablo foothills, the proposed South Valley Freeway will be providing travelers with a range of scenic views into and across the adjacent Park. Le­ gislative approval of this freeway as a scenic highway, together with protection of the hillside visual corridor, are necessary steps to the development of a compre­ hensive park system which meets the recreation, trans­ portation and open space needs of the region. 3 Flood Plain Development SITE CHARACTERISTICS Urban Development The visual site character of the Coyote Creek Park is An effect of urban development on the foothills will be separated into two general areas as follows: the increase in surface water runoff and changes in groundwater conditions. As can be seen on the other North Section - The north section of the Park extends valley hillsides, the importation of water for lawn irri­ from the Tennant Road area north to William Street Park. gation and increased runoff from ·turf and paved surfaces, The section is characterized by a deep, well defined during a normal and storm precipitation result in the stream channel with dense tree canopy and thick under­ rapid flood peaking of tributaries and channels. In the growth. The channel is bounded by flood plain plateaus case of the Park, increased runoff in the hills will re­ and bluffs. The visual character remains predominantly quire greater flood capacity at the Coyote and increased agricultural, but the area is rapidly being urbanized, flood carrying capacity for the valley drainage systems. creating a hard edge between the park lands and the development. Although the harmful effects of urbanization upon the hills and valley drainage systems can be resolved, the South Section - The southern section of the Park ex­ visual impact to the hills and park need to be studied tends from the Tennant Road area south to Anderson and understood in terms of future urban and environ­ Reservoir:. This section has a poorly defined stream mental values. channel which meanders across the broad flood plain. The tree canopy varies from dense to completely open Several alternative actions should be undertaken by and consists of large scattered trees with sparse under­ City and County Planning Agencies prior to permitting growth. This section of the Park also has large quarry extensive development :)f the h~lls: The comprehensive lagoons and percolation ponds. The surrounding are.as analysis of land use, reviewing trafficways, economic are almost entirely agricultural land with scattered factors of service areas, taxing, and housing needs~ housing. This gives an undefined visual edge to the . Analysis of ecological data on vegetation, fire hazard Park lands. arid controls; visual factors; geology, soils and hy­ drology. The. agencies should evaluate and plan for compatible and productive urban development patterns. The current low density zoning of the hillsides allows · Hills for selective urban development. However, the visual protection of grasslands and hill forms will necessitate The grassy foothills along the eastern edge of the the clustering of development in valley pockets and be­ Park are an excellent, though endangered, visual hind the foothill ridges. Together with selection for­ asset. The provide a vertical element and sense of estation and innovative architectural design, economi­ space which is a stimulating contrast to the flat valley cal development can occur on the hills, while pre­ lands. In addition, they will continue to act as a serving their greater value as a visual and physical visual boundary, if protected in their natural state, edge .to the Park. free from indiscriminate housing. The optimum solution to the foothill lands would be zoning them as park and open space with eventual de­ velopment as a kyline access road connecting with r Anderson Reservoir.
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